70 Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.
754 Saint Boniface (died), English missionary, bishop, and martyr
1257 Kraków, in Poland, receives city rights.
1716 Roger Cotes (died), English mathematician (born 1682)
1723 Adam Smith (born), Scottish economist and philosopher (died 1790)
1757 Pierre Jean George Cabanis (born), French physiologist and philosopher (died 1808)
1817 The first Great Lakes steamer, the Frontenac, is launched.
1826 Carl Maria von Weber (died), German pianist, composer, and conductor (born 1786)
1829 HMS Pickle captures the armed slave ship Voladora off the coast of Cuba.
1832 The June Rebellion breaks out in Paris in an attempt to overthrow the monarchy of Louis-Philippe.
1837 Houston, Texas, is incorporated by the Republic of Texas.
1849 Denmark becomes a constitutional monarchy by the signing of a new constitution.
1850 Pat Garrett (born), American sheriff (died 1908)
1851 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery serial, Uncle Tom’s Cabin, or Life Among the Lowly, starts a ten-month run in the National Era abolitionist newspaper.
1864 American Civil War: Battle of Piedmont: Union forces under General David Hunter defeat a Confederate army at Piedmont, Virginia, taking nearly 1,000 prisoners.
1866 John McDouall Stuart (died), Scottish explorer (born 1815)
1878 Pancho Villa (born), Mexican general (died 1923)
1883 John Maynard Keynes (born), English economist (died 1946)
1883 The first regularly scheduled Orient Express departs Paris.
1898 Salvatore Ferragamo (born), Italian shoe designer, founded Salvatore Ferragamo Italia S.p.A. (died 1960)
1899 Otis Barton (born), American diver, engineer, and actor, designed the bathysphere (died 1992)
1900 Dennis Gabor (born), Hungarian-English physicist and engineer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1979)
1900 Stephen Crane (died), American author (born 1871)
1902 Louis J. Weichmann (died), American clerk, witness in Abraham Lincoln assassination trial (born 1842)
1906 Karl Robert Eduard von Hartmann (died), German philosopher (born 1842)
1910 O. Henry (died), American author (born 1862)
1915 Denmark amends its constitution to allow women’s suffrage.
1916 Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court; he is the first American Jew to hold such a position.
1917 World War I: Conscription begins in the United States as “Army registration day”.
1926 Paul Soros (born), Hungarian-American engineer and businessman (died 2013)
1933 The U.S. Congress abrogates the United States’ use of the gold standard by enacting a joint resolution (48 Stat. 112) nullifying the right of creditors to demand payment in gold.
1934 Bill Moyers (born), American journalist, 13th White House Press Secretary
1942 World War II: The United States declares war on Bulgaria, Hungary, and Romania.
1944 World War II: More than 1000 British bombers drop 5,000 tons of bombs on German gun batteries on the Normandy coast in preparation for D-Day.
1945 Patrick Head (born), English businessman co-founded Williams F1
1946 Freddie Stone (born), American singer, guitarist, and pastor (Sly & the Family Stone)
1947 Marshall Plan: In a speech at Harvard University, the United States Secretary of State George Marshall calls for economic aid to war-torn Europe.
1947 Tom Evans (born), English singer-songwriter and guitarist (Badfinger) (died 1983)
1949 Ken Follett (born), Welsh author
1952 Nicko McBrain (born), English drummer (Iron Maiden, Pat Travers, Streetwalkers, and Trust)
1956 Elvis Presley introduces his new single, “Hound Dog”, on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
1967 The Six-Day War begins: The Israeli air force launches simultaneous pre-emptive attacks on the air forces of Egypt and Syria.
1968 Robert F. Kennedy, a U.S. presidential candidate, is shot at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, by Sirhan Sirhan, a Palestinian. Kennedy dies the next day.
1971 Mark Wahlberg (born), American model, actor, producer, and rapper (Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch)
1975 The United Kingdom holds its first country-wide referendum on remaining in the European Economic Community (EEC).
1981 The Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that five people in Los Angeles, California, have a rare form of pneumonia seen only in patients with weakened immune systems, in what turns out to be the first recognized cases of AIDS.
1984 The Prime Minister of India, Indira Gandhi, orders an attack on the Golden Temple, the holiest site of the Sikh religion.
1989 The Tank Man halts the progress of a column of advancing tanks for over half an hour after the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.
1993 Conway Twitty (died), American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1933)
1999 Mel Tormé (died), American singer-songwriter and actor (born 1925)
2002 Dee Dee Ramone (died), American singer-songwriter and bass player (Ramones) (born 1951)
2003 A severe heat wave across Pakistan and India reaches its peak, as temperatures exceed 50°C (122°F) in the region.
2004 Ronald Reagan (died), American actor and politician, 40th President of the United States (born 1911)
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